AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports application deployment on Amazon EC2 F1 instances. F1 instances are easy to program and come with everything you need to develop, simulate, debug, and compile your hardware acceleration code. To learn more about F1, visit Amazon EC2 F1 Instances. 

This new Quick Start automatically deploys GitHub Enterprise on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, to provide a configurable infrastructure for your coding and deployment tasks. 

You can now run queries on Amazon Athena via the REST API using the AWS SDK available in Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, and C++. Please visit the API reference and CLI guide to learn more. To help you get started, you can use new code samples that illustrate running & stopping a query, creating, listing and deleting saved queries, and listing your query execution history. With the current release, you can now run queries via the console, JDBC driver or using the API. We have also updated the JDBC driver to support the new APIs. 

The growing use of microprocessor-based control systems in industrial environments has highlighted to need to design in higher levels of reliability. This means systems need to conform to industrial safety standard regulations. They also need to be protected from high voltage transients up to 60V on a 24V or 48V bus. Maxim Integrated has addressed …

Read full article: PCIM: Maxim power converter aims for safe power levels

Power Integrations increases the isolation voltage of its SCALE-iDriver family, adding 1,700V models that can drive IGBT and mosfet gates at up to 8A.

Read full article: PCIM: 1700V IGBT driver delivers 8A

Microsemi and Analog Devices were showing a 5kV isolated SiC mosfet driver design at PCIM in Germany this week.

Read full article: PCIM: SiC mosfet driver reference from ADI and Microsemi

Farnell element14 has brought out Pi Desktop – a kit that converts a Raspberry Pi into a fully featured and packaged desktop computer.

Read full article: Farnell accessories turn Pi into PC

Once upon a time the 3rd largest wireless chip company bought the fourth largest wireless chip company for $1.64 billion forming a company with revenues of $3 billion. The combined company formed a jv with a third wireless chip company which resulted in an organisation with 6,700 employees of whom 85% worked in R&D in centres …

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Power Integrations has introduced a range of 1.7kV isolated gated drivers for IGBTs and mosfets. Isolation comes from coupled inductors formed in the package lead-frame, isolated from one another by void-free package moulding compound. According to the guys on the Power Integrations stand at PCIM, they are trying to qualify to the new VDE 0884-17 …

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